Ukraine’s far-right leader calls for Right Sector’s total mobilization

Far-right Right Sector party leader Dmitry Yarosh has called his supporters to mobilize and get ready to take decisive steps to ‘defend Ukraine’s sovereignty’. He urged the security forces not to interfere but help the nationalists restore ‘legal order’.

In an online video on the Right Sector Youtube page Yarosh
“commanded all arms of the Right Sector to fully mobilize and
get ready to take decisive steps to defend Ukraine’s sovereignty
and territorial integrity.”

“I call upon the Ukrainian security forces not only to
refrain from counteracting the Right Sector, but also help [the
party members] to bring legal order to the Ukrainian land,”
he said.

On Monday radical activists representing the Right Sector
attempted to storm Kiev’s Supreme Court building, demanding the
adoption of lustration legislation, which implies that people
connected to the former regime may not hold office in the new
authority.

Over 1,500 nationalists from the Right Sector circled the
Ukrainian parliament in Kiev on March 27. They demanded the
resignation of Ukraine’s Interior Minister Arsen Avakov after the
police killed Aleksandr Muzychko also known as Sashko Bilyi, one
of the Right Sector leaders. The group held Avakov personally
responsible for the death of the notorious radical militant.

Following the siege of Kiev parliament Ukraine’s security
officials discussed banning the Right Sector.

The Right Sector movement first came to international spotlight
at the end of November 2013 supporting the pro-EU protests in
Kiev. Its members were very active in the violence which
triggered the ouster of President Viktor Yanukovich. Right Sector
fighters used clubs, petrol bombs, and firearms against Ukrainian
police while wearing Nazi insignia.

In March the ultra-nationalist movement decided to become a
political party, nominating Yarosh for president.

Yarosh has headed an ultra-right Stepan Bandera All-Ukrainian
Organization ″Tryzub″ since 2005. During the EuroMaidan protests,
the organization became the base of the Right Sector. Russia put
Yarosh on an international wanted list and charged him with
inciting terrorism after he urged Chechen terrorist leader Doku
Umarov to launch attacks on Russia. Yarosh has also threatened to
destroy Russian pipelines on Ukrainian territory.